Rijndri
Load of rubbish!!
Console
best movie i've ever seen.
Lucia Ayala
It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.
Sam Green
This is the best example of great British television. I like it better than the new Sherlock Holmes (3-episodes a year) series. Inspector Morse never married, is squeamish around dead bodies, likes women/classical music/opera/beer (a bit too much). Morse' sidekick Sergeant Lewis investigates the usual/unusual suspects and looks for clues to assist in various aspects of the case; occasionally, he goes off on humorous tangents but Morse keeps the sergeant grounded and focused in the right direction. My top 3 detective shows: Columbo, Sherlock Holmes (1980s), Inspector Morse.
Dave
I don't understand how this was popular for so many years. It's deadly dull and very slow. When there are many much more entertaining shows, I don't see how this maintained high viewing figures in the United Kingdom throughout its run.The regular characters aren't likable or interesting.
Catharina_Sweden
I loved this series when I watched it on television many years ago, and now when I re-watch it on my computer screen I still find it very good. I like the Oxford setting: the beautiful time-honoured surroundings in the old university town. The calmness - but with passion and wrath beneath it! I like the perfect Oxford English that most of the actors speak. It is like music in my ears! And I like Inspector Morse himself of course - I can quite relate to him, with his high intelligence, cultural interests (I am also a Wagnerian), lofty ideals when it comes to the opposite sex... and the hopeless loneliness that ensues from those kind of ideals. His romantic interest for some woman he encounters in every episode - but which always comes to nothing...What I do NOT like is first of all that the mysteries are far too complicated. As a viewer, you haven't got a chance to remember or keep apart all the people involved, and all the facts about them and the various crimes, and even less to solve the mystery yourself. I have now begun to stop halfway in every episode, and watch it from the beginning, paying great attention to detail at all times. This makes it easier to follow - but I think for a show that SHOULD be entertainment and not a mind-game, it should not be necessary.Another objection: John Thaw looks VERY old and frail for this role. I thought that he was probably 60-65 in the first seasons, so I was surprised to see, when I looked it up, that he was in fact only 45-50, which ought to be the perfect age for a successful Inspector. Maybe too much booze and to many cigarettes..? :-)Talking of age, as I am myself a middle-aged woman, I appreciate that the women Morse falls in love with are also middle-aged, a bit wrinkled, sometimes even with full figures and grey hairs. I think it is good to show the audience, that middle-aged women with a few age-related flaws can still be lovable!
PoliteP
Save for a trip to Australia, all episodes deal with murders in and around Oxford. For each of his character traits, ways of behaving and addictions one can either admire Morse or frown on him. But even if you don't like a Jaguar MK II, drinking beer or whiskey, Wagner and other classical composers, letting someone else pay for the drinks and falling in love with the wrong women, you will not be able to deny that the intellect, love, loyalty, courage, stamina, wit, tenacity and sometimes blunt hum-our, brought about by Morse and Sergeant Lewis and quite a few others (Strange and sometimes very beautiful coroners) has seldom been combined in this manner. (A Touch of)Frost is more human, Barnaby (Midsomer Murders) kinder and Dalziel (and Pascoe) grouchier than the late great John Thaw, but no one adds up like Inspector Morse.
